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A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

Government has no place telling you who to fall in love with and who to marry.

Love is bigger than government.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

I'm saying 9/11 was to get us into Iraq and get us into Afghanistan.

The pleasure was all yours.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.

Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Now our biggest environmental problems come from our own actions, our own choices, rather than pollution produced by big business.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad ... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

Until you have hunted men, you haven't hunted yet.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

My children were attacked by the Minnesota media when I was governor.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I'm an equal opportunity despiser.

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

Want a hot dog, McMahon?

Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.

Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.

You can't legislate stupidity.

I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.

I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

If I wanna be president, I probably can.

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

You can't legislate morality.

Enhanced Interrogation is Dick Cheney changing a word, Dick Cheney comes up with a new word to cover his ass!

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

If you don't vote, then you may be leaving the decisions up to someone dumber than you.

I'm an Angus King independent.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.

I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

Governments are run by people. People can be bad.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Personally, I think Julian Assange is a hero.

I love my country, not my government.

I ain't got time to bleed.

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

People don't like politicians.

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.
(Larry King Live, May 11, 2009)

I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

If you buy the flag it's yours to burn.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide ... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

They look like to carp going after the same piece of corn.

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'

You can't legislate against stupidity.

Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Government cannot be your parent.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

Government is like physics, you know - for every action, there's a reaction.

I'm tolerant of all religions ... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

I don't take PAC money. I don't take special interest money.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.